August, 1937. 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
43 
ANNUAL REPORT. 
The Council of the Queensland Naturalist’s Club sub- 
mits the 31st Annual Report of the work of the club. 
Meetings , — Ten monthly meetings, a Wild Flower 
Show, eight Field Excursions, and ten Council Meetings 
were held. 
The attendance at monthly meetings was good; the 
average being 40. Interesting lectures and papers on 
many branches of Natural History were given by mem- 
bers and visitors. The lectures were as follows: — 
Mr. H. A. Longman, Director of* the Queensland 
Museum, i ‘ Prehistoric Monsters. ’ ’ 
Professor F. E. Lloyd, lately of the McGill Univer- 
sity, Canada, “Carnivorous Plants.” 
Mr. T. Gedda, “Sweden.” 
Mr. S. L. Everist, “Botanising in Western Queens- 
land.” 
Mr. J. F. Bailey, one time Director, Botanic Gar- 
dens, Brisbane and Adelaide, “Palms.” 
The lat n Mr. T. A. Hough, “New Guinea.” 
Mr. G. IT. M. Drury, M.B.E., “Beehuanaland.” 
Mr. IT. J. Freeman, “Experiences in Hawaii and the 
United States.” 
Patrol Officer Hough, whose extremely interesting 
lecture, illustrated by Kodascope films and still pictures, 
was much enjoyed by club members, was fatally wounded 
by natives shortly after his return to duty, and died in 
hospital on December 9th. 
The standard of exhibits has been well maintained, 
and thanks are due to those members who contributed 
exhibits and reports on excursions during the year. 
The Wild Flower Show was held in the Albert Hall, 
Saturday, September 12th. The exhibits were quite as 
beautiful and varied as usual, but as the attendance of the 
public was not very good a small deficit resulted. If has 
been decided in consequence, that the show be allowed to 
lapse for a year. 
Excursions . — Attendance to excursions on the whole 
has not been very good, and the Council is faced with the 
difficulty of finding satisfactory places to visit on Satur- 
day afternoons. Afternoon excursions may have to be cur- 
tailed in favour of week-end or whole days owing to the 
extension of the city, many places previously available 
have now been built on or taken up in suburban farms. 
The places visited were: — Cash’s Crossing, Mount Gravatt. 
Acclimatisation Society’s Gardens, Lawnton, One Tree 
Hill, Ashgrove, Bribie Island, Sandgate, and Upper Albert 
River, 
